Though I say “yes I see”, no I really don't see (is my smiley face still on?): beer (brewing and drinking), camping, eating, hugging trees, kiting, fishing, ironing, hiking, geocaching and munzing, painting (oils, emulsion and gloss), ranting, recording history as I see it. Days with family, days with friends, days with granddogs. Always an opinion (always wrong), and rarely a dull moment. Welcome to my world... remember - history is written by those who make the effort to write it.

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20 August 2012 (Monday) - Goudhurst

I was hoping to take
Fudge for a walk today, but he just can't do polite company. When
it's just "er indoors TM" and/or
me, he's fine. Perfect behaviour; no problems. If anyone else is
about he become a sexually aroused whirlwind. Training is ongoing as
is the campaign to have his knacks removed, but it the meantime he
can't be trusted when others are about.

Fortunately "Daddies
Little Angel TM" was about today. She took
charge of him to continue "Dog School". I left them
to it as Fudge tried to hump Sid for the umpteenth time.

I
met up with Steve and Maria and we set off to Goudhurst. there is a
six mile walk round the countryside which covers fifteen geocaches
(and
a bonus cache for anyone who finds all fifteen).
We had a really good walk in the country. There was a dodgy five
minutes when we found that (apparently)
Goudhurst is home to werewolves. And there was a frankly
disappointing episode when we stopped at the Globe and Rainbow in
Kilndown for a lunch stop. The beer was
surprisingly good. Surprisingly in that I would have though that the
bar staff's attitude was enough to sour anything. It's quite plain
they don't want the custom; their attitude was somewhere between rude
and arrogant. I would not go back again, and would not advise anyone
else to do so.

But
trivial problems were soon overcome, and we had our picnic a little
way further along the track. There was a rope swing nearby, so we
played silly beggars on it for a little while and achieved a
geocaching challenge into the bargain. As the day went on so it got
hotter and we did begin to wilt. The Goudhurst Millennium Walk is
rather rubbish in that it starts off clearly signposted, and as it
goes on it becomes more and more vague; eventually becoming just
random unmarked footpaths. But notwithstanding landowners who don't
mark rights of way we found all fifteen geocaches and even went on to
find the bonus sixteenth as well. We did feel rather pleased with
ourselves.

Home, and then on to
astro club committee meeting (via two more geocaches). A good
meeting, a good chat with friends, and we all went outside shortly
after 9pm to watch the I.S.S. pass overhead. I took the opportunity
to test out my new Google Sky app. I was rather disappointed to find
that Google Sky didn't have the I.S.S. on it...